118.772 Calf Medicine, Health and Management (15 credit)

This course will help you increase your knowledge of the aetiology, epidemiology, management and prevention of calf disease. It will focus on a practical, cost-effective, but holistic approach to the evaluation of calf health, management and production both at a general level and specific individual farm basis.

Please note: Courses are revised following each offering. Details of content and assessment are subject to change between offerings.

What will you learn?

On this course you will learn:

a practical approach to the investigation and cost-effective management of large-scale calf disease problems.

How the course works

This course is taught via distance learning (you may know it as continuing education, distance education or continuing professional development) by a recognised international expert in his field. In this course, you will use a mixture of provided information, textbooks, literature, and online sessions to support and consolidate your learning.

DOMESTIC students:

contact WORKSHOP (contact course)

There will be a 3 day on-campus workshop held at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. This will build on the knowledge you’ve gained on the course through small group teaching, practical sessions and discussions of experiences in your own practice.

The contact workshop is an opportunity for face-to-face time with your class and lecturer. Together you can build on the knowledge you’ve gained on the course through small group teaching, practical sessions and discussions of experiences in your own practice. The new format also provides a great opportunity for you to meet students and staff from other courses within the MVM programme by combining with them for some sessions.

For the best contact workshop experience we recommend that you attend in person. While attendance is highly-recommended it is not compulsory in order to pass the course. If you can’t make it in person you will be able to join some (non-practical) sessions live via the internet (we endeavour to record these sessions for review, but are unable to guarantee the quality of the recording).

Dates and timings*

Enrolments open

1 October 2017

Course start

July 2018

Exam period

February 2019

Course end

February 2019

*Please note: You can still apply for enrolment after the due dates above.Places cannot be assured after these due dates; but late applications will be considered as long as remaining places are available.If you have any questions please check with the MVM office to see if you can still enrol.